Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dramatic moments of all came unexpectedly during the testimony of 19-year-old Wladyslaw Caczkowski. He told how he and a gang of youngsters had ridden from one police station to another in a truck, collecting arms. They had driven out into the country to get more arms, and when they found the roads back to Poznan blocked by tanks they sought refuge at a state farm. There, Caczkowski said, "I realized I had done wrong." So he telephoned for police and surrendered himself. When police came "they treated me as though they were in the SS. They beat...
With Israel absent, the commission went about censuring Israel's reprisal raid on Husan, in which 37 Arabs died, as a "planned and unprovoked aggression." The same day five Israelis were killed in a truck ambush near the Jordan border. This time the Israelis pointedly refrained from asking the U.N. to look into the shooting, said they would investigate it themselves...
...TRUCK RATES are going up, possibly as much as 15%, to offset heavier taxes, increased costs. According to ICC figures, profits of 900 truck lines slipped 50% in 1956's first quarter...
Armed with an atom bomb, even the peaceful Terrapin would be a formidable weapon. A dozen or more could be carried in an Army truck. They could be unloaded, aimed and fired by the truck's crew. Each rocket could have its own launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...
...that led Wolfson to reverse himself and preside over liquidation of part of his empire was plain: he needed cash. In seven years of fast dealing he had transformed Merritt-Chapman & Scott from an old-line marine construction and salvage company into a burgeoning industrial complex (paints, chemicals, steel, truck trailers, shipbuilding). Assets soared 138% to $239.5 million; the gross went up 800% to $360.3 million. But as the empire grew, so did its financial needs. Wolfson halved the regular annual $2 dividend last March to $1 plus a 6% stock dividend. He intended to save cash...